Video Clips from “The Great Black Swamp”
Click here to view the clips

 

Web Site

  http://eol.grolen.com/peanut/BlackSwamp.html

   

Newspaper Articles

Excerpt from “Glacier left Black Swamp” by Elizabeth Plummer
Excerpt from "Black Swamp Once Ruled" by Ken Kinney

Excerpt from "Stony Ridge has more than many 'real' towns" by Ken Kinney

(Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view these articles)

   

Proficiency Outcomes

  The Swamp Survivors activities meet the following proficiency outcomes:

 

6th Grade Outcomes:

  • All of the Writing (a – h)

  • Citizenship (6)

 

New Graduation Test:

  • All of the Writing

  • Reading (7)

  • American Heritage (1b, 2b)

Additional Resources

“The Great Black Swamp:  Historical tales of the 19th century northwestern Ohio”  by Jim Mollenkopf

 

“The Great Black Swamp II:  MORE historical tales of northwestern Ohio” by Jim Mollenkopf

Copies pf these books can be purchased from:
Lake of the Cat Publishing
P.O. Box 351454
Toledo, Ohio 43635-1454
 

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